Girls, Join Us Tonight At 8PM, As "Svengoolie" Presents The 1977 Anthology Film, "Dead Of Night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                             Darlings, I am so sorry it is not the British 1946 film, with Michael Redgrave as the deranged ventriloquist, controlled by his dummy, and a juvenile Sally Ann Howes in the murdered child sequence. This is an attempt on Dan Curtis' part to replicate his earlier "Trilogy Of Terror," which all my girls on here just love!

                                              Tonight, we get three stories--one about time travel, featuring Ed Begley, Jr., one dealing with vampirism, featuring Anjanette Comer, and Horst Bucholz.  Whatever happened to some of these people???????????????

                                                Just as the voodoo doll story in the first was the best (though I just loved "Julie") last is best here.  In "Bobby," the great Joan Hackett plays a grieving mother--and Joan, as always, gives it her all! --mourning for her drowned child, Bobby.  She tries to bring him back, and gets her wish, but does not get the loving Bobby she remembers, or wants to.  In a rip-off of "The Monkey's Paw," and a foreshadowing of Stephen King's "Pet Sematary," Bobby does not turn out to be what Mommy wants.  Maybe he never was.  But this is the best of the three, and I urge you to watch and savor it, especially with Joan.  Seventies child star Lee Harcourt Montogomery plays the devil child.

                                                All in all, we seem to be in for a fun evening.  A nice way for "Svengoolie" to end September, which just flew by, didn't it, darlings???????????

                                                 See you all, tonight at 8.  Baby Gojira and Little Pippin are so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!